Showing 41 results

Description : More information is needed for the History of West Gwillimbury! Did your family reside in the Township of West Gwillimbury prior to 1960? A member of WEGWHIST - the West Gwillimbury History project - will be pleased to meet with you for a chat, and to take notes. If you have any old photographs, please dig them out. The Project will copy the photos and return them immediately.

Vera Peterman of Bradford drove the horse-drawn dairy wagon for seven years. She was the first of four Peterman girls to do so in the 35 years the dairy was running. She married Melville Williams of Tottenham. He was a blacksmith around Tottenham, as was his father Henry. The blacksmith shop was by the railroad track (now gone) north of #9 at Wolf Rd. Lower left to right: Melville Williams, Noreen (Hillis), Earl, Vera. Top Row: Bernice (Burrows), Jean (Scott), Eunice (Randall).

From the left to right in the photo: Joanne Day, Jon Day, Bill Day, Joe Saint and Su Saint.

Back of photo reads: "Ebenezer Church and cemetery where Grandma and Grandpa Tindall are buried. [James]Tindall gave the land for the church and cemetery. Signed Murray Jelly."
Ebenezer United Church was Wesleyan Methodist before Church Union occurred. This building was demolished in the early 1960s and the congregation spread out to other local churches. The cemetery still stands today, and the space of the old church remains vacant.

Back Row: Bertha Langford (nee Pettit), Keith Langford. Front Row: William Langford, Stewart Langford.

William Alexander Langford born 20 July, 1890 in Alton, On.
Bertha Catherine Elizabeth Pettit born 6 September, 1890 in Adjala Twp, On.
They were married on March 6, 1919.
Their children are Dorthy Henriette, born 3 Feb., 1920, Keith Henry, born 9 Jan., 1926, Stewart William. born 17 Mar., 1930.

Westlake Home on the north half of Lot 5, Concession 5.

"The home-coming for the Bradford Centennial Reunion has brought sons and daughters from the length and breadth of the continent, and even guests from Bradford, England.
Bradford churches were filled to capacity on Sunday, when old boys and girls added to the regular congregations, and friendships were renewed following these services." ...

This was probably on Church St. Note the wooden plank sidewalk.
Elizabeth Hodgson was born in December 1898 and died in December 1969. Elizabeth Hodgson later married Ross Bell, and they had five children: Marguerite (married Gerald Roberts), Jean (married Frank Kell), Gladys (married John Cronan), Tom (married to Lois), and Doris (married to Lew Campbell).

Files including letters, newspaper clippings, and essays on select families of Bradford West Gwillimbury